Evelyn Joan Jeanetta Alexander
10 October 1914–22 July 2007 (Age 92)
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
The Life of Evelyn Joan Jeanetta
Evelyn Joan Jeanetta Alexander was born on 10 October 1914, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She had at least 1 son and 1 daughter with Earl George Leatham. She died on 22 July 2007, in Lopez, San Juan, Washington, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Lopez Union Cemetery, Lopez, San Juan, Washington, United States.
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Family Time Line
Earl George Leatham
1909–1976
Evelyn Joan Jeanetta Alexander
1914–2007
Robert Earl Leatham
1948–1948
Lynne Ann Leatham
1950–1976
Spouse and Children
1909–1976Male
1914–2007Female
children
(2)
1948–1948Male
1950–1976Female
World Events (8)
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Age 2
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
1916 · Boeing Aircraft
Age 2
The Boeing Aircraft was named and created by William Boeing. The first two planes were Bluebill and Mallard and the first flight was July 15, 1916. Boeing aircrafts made their debut during WWI.
1940 · Galloping Gertie
Age 26
Galloping Gertie is the reference used to describe the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. It opened on July 1, 1940 four months later it no longer existed. On November 7, 1940 the wind guests came up to 40 miles an hour causing the bridge to twist and vibrate violently before it collapsed into Puget Sound. The only victim of the bridge collapsing was a three-legged paralyzed dog named Tubby whose owner tried to rescue him from the car but he wouldn’t go with him.
Name Meaning
Scottish, English, German, Dutch; also found in many other cultures: from the personal name Alexander, classical Greek Alexandros, which probably originally meant ‘repulser of men (i.e. of the enemy)’, from alexein ‘to repel’ + andros, genitive of anēr ‘man’. Its popularity in the Middle Ages was due mainly to the Macedonian conqueror, Alexander the Great ( 356–323 bc )—or rather to the hero of the mythical versions of his exploits that gained currency in the so-called Alexander Romances. The name was also borne by various early Christian saints, including a patriarch of Alexandria ( ad c.250–326 ), whose main achievement was condemning the Arian heresy. The Gaelic form of the personal name is Alasdair, which has given rise to a number of Scottish and Irish patronymic surnames, for example Mc Allister . Alexander is a common forename in Scotland, often representing an Anglicized form of the Gaelic name. In North America the form Alexander has absorbed many cases of cognate names from other languages, for example Spanish Alejandro , Italian Alessandro , Greek Alexandropoulos, Russian Aleksandr, etc. (For forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988 .) It has also been adopted as a Jewish name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Sources (3)
- Evelyn J Leatham, "Find A Grave Index"
- Legacy NFS Source: Evelyn Joan Jeanetta Alexander - Published information: death: 22 July 2007; Lopez, San Juan, Washington, United States
- Legacy NFS Source: Evelyn Joan Jeanetta Alexander - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Evelyn Joan Jeanetta Alexander
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